Kwajok
Coordinates: 8 ° 18 ' N , 27 ° 59' E
Kwajok (also Kuajok ) is the capital of the state of Gogrial (until 2015 of the state of Warrap ) in South Sudan .
The place is north of Wau in the area of the Rek, a subgroup of the Dinka . In 1923 the second Catholic mission station in the Dinka area was founded here.
In the American Civil War in South Sudan Kuajok was according to eyewitnesses, in May 1995 by paramilitaries in the service of the Sudanese government (the Popular Defense Forces attacked), stole the cattle and women and children abducted as slaves .
In May 2008, there were numerous internally displaced people in and around Kwajok who had fled fighting in other parts of Warrap state and the disputed Abyei area . In addition, at the end of 2010, in the run-up to the independence referendum in South Sudan , thousands of South Sudanese returning from North Sudan.
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- ^ Warrap state decentralizes recruitment for teachers , in: Sudan Tribune, March 26, 2010
- ^ "Very complicated" elections - the view from Warrap , in: IRIN News, March 24, 2010
- ↑ Dengdit Ayok: A Picture about Life in Kuajok Town ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Youth Organization of Warrap State. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
- ^ Marc R. Nikkel: Dinka Christianity. The origins and development of Christianity among the Dinka of Sudan with special reference to the songs of Dinka Christians (Faith in Sudan 11), Paulines Publications, 2001, ISBN 9789966216175 , p. 173
- ^ David Littman: The UN Finds Slavery in the Sudan , in: Middle East Quarterly , September 1996, pp. 91-94
- ↑ Weighed down by displaced neighbors , in: IRIN News, May 21, 2008
- ↑ UN-OCHA: Humanitarian Brief: Returns to Southern Sudan (PDF), December 23, 2010
